The Enfield Marine complex: seven Units, the forbidden Unit #7, and the hill Ennet House shares with E.T.A.

texture · expository, ~YDAU (2009)

• When: UNDATED expository present (autumn YDAU); the E.T.A. hilltop-shaving litigated "years back"
• What: Ennet House is Unit #6 of seven exterior Units on the defunct Enfield Marine V.A. grounds, which, "from [...] Enfield Tennis Academy's hilltop, resembles seven moons orbiting a dead planet": stress-disorder Vietnam vets (#1), the methadone clinic (#2, licensed by the same D.S.A.S. as Ennet House), a vacancy being reconditioned (#3), diapered Alzheimer's patients (#4), The Shed's catatonics (#5, n.67), Ennet House (#6), and boarded-up Unit #7 teetering over the ravine — which doubles as the House's shadow-annex: infamous as where residents sneak "to secretly relapse with Substances," entering it is cause for immediate administrative discharge. The thread's key cross-tie to E.T.A. is vertical, litigated, and daily: the Academy's contractors shaved off the hilltop and sent avalanche debris down over Unit #7, so E.T.A. still pays full monthly rent on what it almost buried — and almost half of Ennet's residents negotiate #7's back fence each morning to shortcut up the hillside to minimum-wage temp jobs, including "custodial and kitchen jobs at the rich tennis school for blond gleaming tennis kids on what used to be the hilltop." The book's two institutions in literal, adjudicated, commuting relation. See the E.T.A. thread for the Academy side.